'Appendix D: Some Experiments to Watch'.'Appendix C: Nobel Prizes in Physics-Past and Future' Seife predicts which scientists are likely to win a Nobel Prize for their work in cosmology.'Appendix B: Where Does Matter Come From?'.'Beyond the Third Revolution: Voyage to the Ends of Time'.'Wrinkles in Spacetime: Gravitational Waves and the Early Universe'.'The Deepest Mystery in Physics: Λ, the Vacuum, and Inflation', Λ being the symbol for the Cosmological constant.

'Seeing the Invisible: MACHOs, WIMPs, and Illuminating the Darkest Regions of the Universe'.' Supersymmetry: Fearlessly Framing the Laws of Matter'.'The Big Bang in Our Backyard: The Birth of Baryons'.'Darker Still: The Enigma of Exotic Dark Matter'.'The Dark Universe: What's the Matter with Matter?'.'The Music of the Spheres: The Cosmic Microwave Background'.'The Third Revolution Begins: The Universe Amok'.'The Second Cosmological Revolution: Hubble and the Big Bang'.'The First Cosmological Revolution: The Copernican Theory'.'The First Cosmology: The Golden Age of the Gods'.A paperback reprint was published in 2004, also from Penguin. The books title refers to the Alpha and Omega appellation for Christ, as found in the Book of Revelation. It is a survey of historic and contemporary efforts at cosmology: to describe the universe, trace the universe back to its origins, including the Big Bang Theory, and to determine the universe's eventual end-state. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2000)Īlpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe is the second non-fiction book by Charles Seife, published by Viking, a division of Penguin Putnam, in 2003.

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